Rock 'n' Roll (Play) (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Rock 'n' Roll is a play by Czech-born British playwright Tom Stoppard that premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 2006. The play is concerned with the significance of rock and roll in the emergence of the socialist movement in Eastern Bloc Czechoslovakia between the Prague Spring of 1968 and the Velvet Revolution of 1989. Taking place in Cambridge, England and in Prague, the play contrasts the attitudes of a young Czech Ph.D student and rock music fan who becomes appalled by the repressive regime in his home country with those of his British Marxist professor who unrepentantly continues to believe in the Soviet ideal.